Dreamer Dreamt
The Humbling
Vermont
See You at Riis
Speaking Sentences Backwards
Filling Holes
Between Isolation
Earth is a Breathing Valley
Music for Unfinished Instruments
Acoustic Ephemera
Partials (from the frozen mud field)
Intimate Views
Continuous Becoming
Interrobang
Light, Color and Geometry
Dark and Pretty Flat
Vortex

Cody Boyce is an artist and musician based in Queens, NY. He has composed for dance, film and installation, including collaborations with his sister, choreographer Esmé Boyce; filmmakers Joseph Barglowski, Robert Orlowski, Miriam Gabriel and Sophia de Baun; and artists Matthew Schreiber, Osvald Landmark and Ryan Hartley Smith. He makes improvised music with Matti Weisberg, aka Fruiting Body.

Partials (from the frozen mud field)

2020

beeswax, graphite powder, dried olive leaves, swivel vise
24 × 14 × 10 ¾ in.

A sculptural investigation of sound, materialized memory and recording technology. The title is sourced from French spectral composer Gérard Grisey’s 1975 composition Partiels, as well as a passage from poet Morgan Võ’s 2019 chapbook Lights of Earth:

bringing snow inside
from the frozen mud field
kid amazing with
a leap towards the air
somehow, it works!
to trust in physics
keeps her where she chose
a black spot, ten feet
off the ground